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Group ethos extremely fresh, excitedly welcoming remote team (5,2,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

queen of the south

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'team' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'group ethos extremely fresh excitedly welcoming remote' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'ethos' is 'theso' which is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for queen of the south that I've seen before include "team" , "Important woman who came to learn from wise man's" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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